On the Transmigration of Souls

Paul Craig Roberts on the assassination of John F. Kennedy

Though perhaps easy to dismiss the ugly events of Charlottesville as a relatively small incident of social unrest over a contested history, this would be a mistake. It arrived, on the contrary, as further evidence of a society at war with itself — a war born of the economic dislocation of the 2008 recession and resulting fear, insecurity and rage it has produced.

There is a case to be made that Trump and Obama before him constitute two sides of the same government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich coin. Rampant inequality at home buttressed by a foreign policy of conflict and aggression overseas is suggestive of a nation whose ruling class has no answer or solution to the chaos it has caused and continues to sow. - Adams John Coolidge On the Transmigration of Souls